RIFF announces the
appointment of Giorgio Gosetti as the Director of the main section and General programme
advisor of
the Reykjavik International Film Festival, which takes place September 22 –
October 2. Gosetti replaces Founding Artistic Director Dimitri Eipides who has
taken on the directorship of the Thessaloniki International Film Festival and
the Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival as well as his programming duties in
Toronto and Montreal.
Gosetti, who is also the Director of VENICE
DAYS at the Venice Film Festival, will be responsible for NEW VISIONS, the main section of the festival and will act as a
General Program Advisor for the other programs. RIFF presents approximately 100 features from 40 countries in 10
programs.
"We are very honoured to work with Giorgio
Gosetti, one of the finest film programmers in the world and welcome him to an
enthusiastic public awaiting his choices for the festival. We are also deeply
indebted to the incomparable Dimitri Eipides who brought his superb programming
skills to a fledgling festival and made it a great success, “ says RIFF director Hronn Marinosdottir.
In 7 short years, RIFF has presented over 1,000 films,
invited over 800 guests and honoured 9 distinguished film personalities (Jim
Jarmusch, Milos Forman, Costa-Gavras, Aki Kaurismaaki, Abbas Kiarostami, Shirin
Neshat, Atom Egoyan, Hanna Schygulla and Aleksandr Sokurov). The annual event
which takes place at the end of September each year now attracts close to 10%
of the Icelandic population.
Giorgio Gosetti is a journalist, critic,
author and organizer of cultural events for the past 35 years. He also works in ANSA’s the
editorial office of Culture & Entertainment and founded 2 daily internet
newspapers TAMTAMCINEM and CINEUROPA.